On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Herbert Graf <hkgraf@gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW under Linux CPU usage is based on total usage/power of single CPU,
> so in multicore/multicpu systems it's quite "normal" to see CPU use go
> beyond 100%. For example, when I use mencoder set for multicore on my
> quad I regularly see >%200 "usage" for the mencoder process.
>

Just wondering if you had the new Intel Core i7, which has quad core plus
hyper threading, so that's 8 virtual CPU giving you 800% load in total? :-)
Plus it has this Turbo Boost technology whatever it means, but they said it
boosts the core frequency dynamically, so maybe you can make 1000% load
even? :-)

Tamas



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